Monday, March 21, 2016

Digital Society E/Affects: Womanhood, Education, and Tolerance

Our digital society is
made up of many parts, similar to a pie. Technology doesn’t just include social
networking and funny YouTube videos, that is just the cherry on top. The real
meat of it includes politics, education, co-collaboration, and overall social
progress. We have chosen three parts of this pie that we feel passionate about
and want to share with you in our short group video.

First, we will explore the positive effect digital and
print media could have on the perception and treatment of women globally.

Second, we will discuss how the attitudes toward the
Digital Society from the older generation are hindering technological progress.

And last, we will discuss how the current social climate
has created an atmosphere in which we must tolerate tolerance.

WOMANHOOD

Movies, television, literature and video games have
portrayed women as sex objects, simpletons and mindless housewives. Women
deserve to be treated as equals. I believe that these same forms of media that
compose our digital society must be used to educate and empower men and women
to trigger a positive change in the treatment and perception of women all
across the globe.

EDUCATION

Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy said, “Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.” He
originally said this to support the shift toward e-books, but I think it can be
applied to other forms of technology as well. The older generation that didn’t
grow up in the Digital Society we live in now, is resistant to change and
therefore hindering the progress and the development of their students and
children. I believe these attitudes must change in order for them to be able to
teach and help the younger generations navigate the Digital Universe maturely
and efficiently.

TOLERANCE

Our digital society can very easily be characterized by the
many social media networks we rely on. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, for
example, have all changed the way we communicate. These digital platforms
require us to be more tolerant and open-minded. While tolerance generally
serves to combat radicalism, today’s social climate indicates that tolerance
can breed radicalism as well. The fine line between tolerance and appeasement
begins with social networking.

CONCLUSION

As you can see, the Digital Society we live in, is quite
complex. We’ve only touched on a few of the aspects of this new social climate,
but we strongly believe that if we strive to continue to share ideas about ways
to improve, we will be able to unite in order to communicate effectively
throughout the Digital Wilderness.